The Holy Grail, Valencia
So Now i´m in Valencia which is the real part of spain, relaxed care free and wonderful. The home of the America´s cup next year where the Swiss Kiwis and the Kiwí´s will fight it out to be the best in the world, and for all those kiwi´s out there. It has the only Loaded Hog bar outside of NZ which is great. However small dissapointment, it doesn´t actually sell Loaded Hog Beer.
The main thing i have noticed with the spanish, is their attitude in shops especially but elsewhere as well. In Macca´s or Burger King, it may take like 20-30 mins to get served in a line thats about 4-5 long. However they hate waiting at the traffic lights for the lights to change to walk. Never in a rush except for getting to their Siesta, or the Cerveza´s (Beer).
Valencia is the capital for seafood which means the Paella is fantastic along with some of the other bits and pieces you can try, today i went through the local market and saw these tomatoes, that were quite large, well in actual fact they were like 5 or 6 Tomatoes in this one tomato. Very Unusual!
So apart from General sightseeing around Valencia, exploring the sights and smells of the spanish markets with produce out of this world. I also went to see the Holy Grail, well the one recognised by the catholic church as it being a maybe anyways. The Cathedral it´s in is like any other church in the world, except for this Holy Chalice. Security doesn´t seem too tough, so i´m not so sure like most people on its Authenticity.
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No Idea where i am travelling tomorrow if i am travelling at all, apparently with my hostel if there is room tomorrow he will let me know, if not i guess i´m either walking around finding accommodation elsewhere or going on the Madrid that doesn´t have any accommodation… Oh the joys of travel!
September 18th, 2006 at 10:27 pm
i know what you mean about nothing being open on the weekends. it drives me nuts! it just requires too much planning (not my strong point).